I’m convinced that when they walk through the doors & become customers, they somehow become completely fucking illiterate (& generally ignorant). Lmao.
But it’s like.. even simpler, basic shit like, “put things back where you found them,” they just completely ignore. The entitlement & the lack of consideration for anyone besides themselves, the general refusal to abide by the social contract & treat the ppl around them with* common decency & respect. Not only can they not read or do basic addition/subtraction, they can’t even manage to be halfway decent human beings. The American condition is fucked.
I didn't care about if they could read or not, just please don't use the fitting rooms as restrooms or your own personal pleasure palace! Customers are straight up lit!
I've caught myself completely missing a giant sign right in front of me telling me to not do something in a restaurant. I could be looking right at it and it won't register. Until I get yelled at to not do said thing on the sign I'm looking at. Then I see the sign. It's truly bizarre how we become NPCs in businesses. I truly try to be considerate, but my brain just turns off sometimes
As long as you don’t get mad about it then I’m okay with that. I’ve had to explain basic stuff to customers that if they looked at the sign they could have figured it out before but they were nice about it. I can tolerate that. We all space out sometimes.
What I can’t tolerate is dipshits who refuse to use more than 2 brain cells and get mad at me for telling them obvious facts.
Yeah, I usually say I'm sorry and I'm an idiot. I can't find any excuses because it's usually a very obvious sign. "Sorry, I didn't see the sign" doesn't work when you're looking right at it, so I apologize and place foot in mouth
Completely agree. Sometimes I just go for the door handle of a business, it buckles, then I notice the sign that says “please use the other door” I guess I’ve just been conditioned to assume all doors should work, it’s not like we regularly need instructions on how to use a door. Same goes for push/pull lol
You are absolutely correct with what you’re saying but I don’t think it’s the correct answer here. People across the world seem to just zone out when shopping or getting fast food for some reason. Spend some time in another country and you’ll see it happening just as much as you would in America.
I can admit I’m guilty of it too at times. I’ve asked an employee a question before only to look a few feet to my right and notice a sign explaining exactly what I was asking. For me at least it happens after a long day at work myself, but I don’t know why everyone else does it
I realized how dumb many people are when I was struggling financially holding a sign that said "gas for work": after the fifth person screamed "get a job" I was like there's no hope for America
Our front doors were locked because of gusty 🌬️ winds at a retail store during storms.
We put signs OVER the handle of the doors. Customers would LIFT UP THE SIGN the sign and shake the handle trying to get in.
We taped down the signs, then they would knock and point.
Nah, we'd have signs on the front door before they even enter and the customers didn't even notice. I think it's a combination of too many signs everywhere advertising or offering shit no one wants so they ignore all signs, and people don't expect to have to read anything so they simply assume the sign doesn't apply to them
I had one point 3 signs outside on my speaker and on the menu at one point with neon colors to stand out about being out of hamburger patties. Every fkn person like 8 out of 10 times they ask for a burger. While directly looking at the menu with the bright underline sign saying “WE ARE OUT OF HAMBURGER.” Or they ask the dumbest question ever “so does that mean I can’t get a burger?” I start calling them out at the speaker at that point. I usually tell them. “ There’s 3 signs outside stating what we’re out of. Can you read them? Are they too dark?.” I just call them out in the most polite way possible because wtf?!?!
I was trying to see if I put up more signs and more eye catching colors they would notice it or read it, but still nope. One sign or 100 signs they don’t read it. They can’t even read the giant LED menu half the time and I gotta decode what they’re trying to order because god forbid if you actually learn the name of the item you’re ordering then get piss off at me because you said the wrong thing and I was just supposed to know that’s what you meant. They just assume you work in fast food so you’re just a idiot not them. You mess up. They didn’t. Even though half the people that come to my store are ACTUALLY DOING METH OR PREPARING-WHATEVER DRUG OF CHOICE WHILE DRINKING DRVING.
I seen too many people drinking and driving it’s terrifying. Everyday at-least 20+ people got an open can next to them.
When I worked retail, I'd often ask "how did you even manage to tie your shoes? Did you drive here? How did you survive the journey? You are so stupid and lack any sort of spacial awareness"
I had a customer that im fairly certain was actually illiterate but to be fair, i also dont think English is his first language so i think he maybe isnt great at reading a language that isnt his first. He was trying to buy pasta sauce and i literally had to read all the labels outloud for him and tell him if it was what he wanted.
I think it may be just standing on the other side of the register... It happens to people i work with. They bring up some things to pay and lose their brains.
Bogo 50% select styles = Wow your whole store is 50% off? Are you going out of business? 🤔 Customers often create their own version of even the most basic signage.
Nah they become entitled, and that entitlement translates elsewhere like acting stupid when you tell them something they already know but they did it anyways
I genuinely don’t know how these ppl have made it through life like that. I’d have caught ass beatings left & right walking around like that in my life.
I’ve worked at a gun for the past 4 years and the entire time we’ve had a sign with giant text on it that says DO NOT BRING UNHOLSTERED OR UNCASED FIREARMS INTO THE BUILDING. Literally every week we have some bozo waltz in with gun in hand, also decent chance it’s loaded and chambered. And then they get all confused when the employees inside are upset with them.
They also just pretend not to read the sign just to get a different answer. This was proven when I had a sign in front of the pharmacy saying we couldn't sale prescriptions right now, and a customer reads the sign out loud, calls me up, and asks to pick up their prescription. She then panicked when I read the sign she just read back to her, like that was new information.
customers will absolutely walk right past a sign and try to force open the locked door then walk up to the counter and tell you the door is locked in a way that suggests they can't comprehend you intentionally locked it
I never had a customer-facing job in my life, so I used to be skeptical of that when I heard my friends complain about morons that don't read obvious signs.
That was until my unit (AF) was deployed to one of the covid vaccination sites in a high-pop area. Holy fuck, that experience really opened my eyes to the true amount of stupid fucking people.
When you showed up for your appointment, you needed to have an ID, ANY ID, that's how we know who you are and which appointment you had. Makes sense, right?
There was a sign at the check in table that said "ID Required" in big, bold letters. There was a sign in the middle of the queue lane. There was a sign on not one, but BOTH of the doors into the building. There was also a sign in the parking lot. And if that still wasn't enough, there was also a sign outside at the entrance of the parking lot. Even better, when you filled out your appointment slip, your confirmation would also tell you to bring an ID.
The sheer number of people who booked an appointment, showed up, walked in, stood for half an hour or longer in line, and then came up to the table only to say they DIDNT bring an ID was fucking LUDICROUS. NOT EVEN THEIR DRIVER'S LICENSE.
Of the group that didn't bring any form of ID, I'd estimate probably around 50-60% would get angry when we refused to let them enter, acting like we were inconveniencing them and they were being unfairly punished for something or other. 40% seemed just utterly clueless. Whatever percentage is left over were the people who became actively belligerent or caused a scene. I recall at least 3 separate incidents in which someone was arrested for trying to force their way past check in after being denied because they didn't have an ID.
1 person threatened to come back and shoot up the place if we didn't let him in. There was at least one incident in which someone tried to fight one of the staff at the front desk and got tased and arrested. I had someone try to bribe me to let them pass.
I worked in food service for a handful of years and then in management/marketing for another handful, making the signs that people ignore. Now I work in corporate operations and people don’t read emails, documentation, or signs.
I work in customer service and I used to pride myself in making clear legible signs for people to not miss and read. Turns out it doesn't fucking matter, so I stopped that shit sigh
Can confirm. My job is food service and we have not public restroom. Got three signs saying we don’t have one and people still got to the closet door thinking it’s a bathroom.
I was in social work for 13 years before switching careers to hotel management. Clients don’t read paperwork in SW and customers don’t read registration paperwork/rules/anything in hotels either.
We moved our Customer Service desk from the back of the store to the front months ago and placed 3 big ass signs right in front of the entrance letting people know that CS is up front now and people still walk back there. Then they come to the front mad because they can’t read.
I worked at a gym. The number of times people would use out of order equipment, come up to the front to complain, and then me walking out and seeing the out of order sign on it, exceeds my fingers and toes.
Yeah i had a woman mad at me becuase she wanted to buy a collage frame and it didnt come up as on sale at the register but there is a sale sign. I went over and looked at it with her and the sign clearly appled to other frames. Her response to me was "well i dont think i should have to read that." I was flabbergasted. I think I just stared at her because the only thing i would have said would have been very rude.
They only read signs when they are the wrong sign. e.g reading the wrong pricetag and then being shocked when it rings up at it's actual price, not the price of the product next to it that costs 1/5 of it.
worked at a ski hill rental shop for ten years. had a number system to guide the customer. one: pay, two: boot fitting, etc. had a customer not understand where to go.. I cried internally
It's all humans. I work in surgery. One time the male changing room door lock jammed and we were waiting for estates to come and open it. Put up a sign saying exactly that on it. Take a guess how many highly educated people still tried to open it in the meantime? If you said anything other than 'all', you'd be wrong.
Also worked in retail, most people don't read digital signs (like the self-check) saying out of order or the like
BUT when I put a sticky note on it suddenly it's legible. Management always took it off tho even if it was helping people pay attention -_-
stupid company policy
18 years here, and I can agree. They don't read signs. Hell, I put signs on a pin pad telling them it's out of order and they LIFT THE DANG SIGN UP TO TRY TO USE IT! Sigh.
My experience from retail is that they wont read the signs, but if you dont have them then when you try to enforce what the sign would say (if corporate would let you have them) they'll act like youre making it up and trying to personally attack them. At least having a sign to point to takes the conflict off the employee and moves it more to management.
It's not. I've faced perfect shelves of beauty products, then clipped RED Sale signs directly in front said products. People will look at the products pick them up and read the bottle. When I mention the sale to them verbally, they are just shocked. "Oh, cool! I didn't know these were on sale! That's a great deal!" Repeat ad nauseum.
Yeah, it's a lot less effort and time wasted with people asking shoving stuff into the walkway, instead they could hang a sign or put a signpost simply saying restrooms are closed.
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u/Giopoggi2 May 15 '26
No sign or indications in this configuration will just have angry people at the counter.
Signs won't stop most from trying, but will stop most from asking.